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Privacy gets teeth: Australia’s new statutory tort and how it might look in practice
As of 10 June 2025, every Australian now has the right to sue for serious invasions of privacy.
Critical to obtaining effective relief against a wrongdoing defendant is being able to serve process on that defendant in a manner that the forum hearing the dispute will deem sufficient, and that meets constitutional due process requirements for giving a defendant notice.
Sometimes, though, this is easier said than done. This is especially so when litigating matters involving cryptocurrencies and other blockchain tokens. In such cases, the defendants being sued not infrequently operate only anonymously or pseudonymously, without ever disclosing their true names, physical addresses or even their general location—and that location might be anywhere in the world.
Read the entire New York Law Journal article written by Robert Schwinger.
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As of 10 June 2025, every Australian now has the right to sue for serious invasions of privacy.
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